"Things have changed. Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies. Troy Jollimore writes, “I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.” Faculty have seen a stunning level of disconnection […] it is getting harder and harder and we don’t know what to do."
https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today
Via #AstralCodexTen
A bold short-term prediction about AI progress by "superforecasters" (who don't seem to use coding agents a lot): "We think that 2025 and 2026 will see gradually improving AI agents. In 2027, coding agents will finally be good enough to substantially boost AI R&D itself, causing an intelligence explosion that plows through the human level sometime in mid-2027 and reaches superintelligence by early 2028."
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/introducing-ai-2027
Ten big wins in 2024 for farmed animals - by Lewis Bollard
https://farmanimalwelfare.substack.com/p/ten-big-wins-in-2024-for-farmed-animals
Via #AstralCodexTen
Asking mostly because I'm worried about my father, but is #AstralCodexTen a part of the #AltRightPipeline? I've read a lot of the guy's early stuff (pre-2019) and it was really interesting, but the more recent (2020-2023) stuff feels icky, and I can't put my finger on why
Oleg Kostour 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X: "Here's the latest polling data from the US by @BrookingsInst on support for Ukraine. 58% of Republicans, 62% of Independents and 76% of Democrats side with Ukraine. As opposed to 4%, 2% and 1% (respectively) siding with Russia. General support amongst the American public is https://t.co/IXfwDFwTNs" / X
https://x.com/OlegKostour/status/1828156979078127852
That's right, hardly anyone in the US wants Russia to defeat #Ukraine.
Via #AstralCodexTen
Scott Alexander: Interview Day At Thiel Capital
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/interview-day-at-thiel-capital
#SlateStarCodex
#AstralCodexTen #PeterThiel #Tech #TaxTheRich #Libertarianism
I appear in the latest Astral Codex Ten post! I think Scott's summary of the debate is very fair, and reading his post is a good alternative to watching the whole debate. I also broadly agree with his commentary. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-rootclaim #AstralCodexTen
The whole of #SlateStarCodex (#AstralCodexTen) summarised down to one paragraph by a redditor:
“Science is hard. Coordination is hard. Change is coming. Be kind to each other.”
Good news everyone! My favorite blog is now crossposted to the fediverse (unofficially) #AstralCodexTen
@puffer https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/universe-hopping-through-substack made me aware of a defunct service that linked to a randomly selected tweet, advertised as “a live demo that most people on twitter are not like you.”
People could use a reminder of that, about the internet and world in general, a lot more often.
This continues to be one of the best book reviews I have ever read, and a very convincing economic argument
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progress-and-poverty
